LAW & LEARNING

Company Law & Governance Academy

Learn company law in England and Wales and how companies are governed, with notes on France and the US. Six modules and 18 lessons: business forms, separate legal personality (Salomon, Prest), setting up a company after the 2023 reforms, shares, pre-emption and transfer, persons with significant control, minority protection (s.994, derivative claims), the seven directors’ duties, liability and disqualification, the board, ordinary, special and written resolutions, general meetings, who can bind the company, dividends and capital maintenance, accounts, size thresholds and filing, registers and charges, governance codes, stakeholder reporting and changing or ending a company. Eight simulations: business forms, a PSC map, minority remedies, directors’ duties, a vote counter, the company calendar, a dividend test and company size.

Ready to try · Learn company law in England and Wales and how companies are governed, with notes on France and the US. Six modules and 18 lessons: business forms, separate legal personality (Salomon, Prest), setting up a company after the 2023 reforms, shares, pre-emption and transfer, persons with significant control, minority protection (s.994, derivative claims), the seven directors’ duties, liability and disqualification, the board, ordinary, special and written resolutions, general meetings, who can bind the company, dividends and capital maintenance, accounts, size thresholds and filing, registers and charges, governance codes, stakeholder reporting and changing or ending a company. Eight simulations: business forms, a PSC map, minority remedies, directors’ duties, a vote counter, the company calendar, a dividend test and company size.